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Another awesome batch of pics sir! I'm really digging the white S2000! Are these from Texas? Or will we be getting a huge post of those in the near future?

Nope, these are from this past Wednesday's Sonic meet. I didn't take a ton at MOD in Texas, the event was nowhere near as big as I expected it to be. I'm glad the main reason I went down there was eating, drinking, and shenans, because if it had been for MOD specifically I'd have been unhappy with the trip.

Those pics are processed but have yet to be uploaded. They're all daytime pics, so with my lack of lenses and filters they're kinda whatever which is why I've been lazy about them. I'll get them up in the next couple days.

Things are at a point where I genuinely feel that it's a waste of my time to play around with camera settings between shots, when it's so much easier to set the aperture for desired depth of field and let the camera pick a shutter speed, since I have so many adjustments I can make to the RAW data after dumping the photos to the computer.

All of them get 4-point lighting-based adjustments, from highlights to shadows, then most get color saturation adjustments as well. Nothing crazy, and nothing that couldn't be done on film with knowledge and skill.

As a result, it allows me to focus largely on composing the image instead of worrying about metering exposures and doing maths.

I use a similar approach (great, now I sound super hipster) but I find I tend to take multiple shots at the same angle with different settings and then see which one I like best - then further enhance it later at home

I use a similar approach (great, now I sound super hipster) but I find I tend to take multiple shots at the same angle with different settings and then see which one I like best - then further enhance it later at home

Shooting RAW does a pretty good job of eliminating the need for multiple shots in my mind. That's not to say I don't know how to meter and properly expose a photo on the camera side though, I just think it's easier and better worth my time post-processing.

And with that, the few MOD photos I published:

This one belongs to Pirana, it's a fairly well known car in the community:

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The stickers are a joke, it's a 2.3 stroker spinning out 704 ponies.

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This is the lightest Evo IX in the world, quite possibly the lightest CT9A Evo period:

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Evolution Dynamics brought their car out:

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Cobb Plano had a booth too:

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Another nice round of shots Spaz! I love it! I always carry around an extra battery for may camera though since they are a pain in the butt to charge. Now a quick question. How the heck does that truck get over speed bumps? Or how does it get over dips, or pot holes, or how does it drive over anything that isn't a flat surface?

Another nice round of shots Spaz! I love it! I always carry around an extra battery for may camera though since they are a pain in the butt to charge. Now a quick question. How the heck does that truck get over speed bumps? Or how does it get over dips, or pot holes, or how does it drive over anything that isn't a flat surface?

I own 4 batteries... Somehow none were charged.

Yeah, the truck's bagged. And as long as it's got an air setup, the train horns were a natural must.